At this moment, Zhao Xu was naturally a little complacent.

Next, in the second year of Shaosheng, there is a more important event in the Great Song Dynasty that is coming.

Imperial examinations.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination system was constantly improved, and the three-year imperial examination had been determined.

However, during this period, there was no unified time for the opening day of the college examination and the general examination in the Great Song Dynasty, because there were different situations in different places, just like why the college entrance examination in later generations was finally changed from July to June.

However, the date for the temple examination has been basically set, that is, it is set for March.

This is also the origin of the spring skull.

In March of the second year of Shaosheng, it can be said that there is no one before and no one after the imperial examination.

Last year, when Zhao Xu announced the abolition of the results of the previous two imperial examinations, speaking of which, there was still some resistance among students all over the world. Even those Jinshi who were in the examination wanted to go to Beijing in tandem to ask Zhao Xu for his life, and ask the housekeeper to take back his life.

However, the explanation behind this edict made these students who had already passed the Jinshi examination and their families all become lonely when they wanted to go to the capital to make trouble.

The edict says:

In the imperial examination in the second year of Shaosheng, three champions will be selected.

Moreover, the number of selected jinshi will also be three times that of the previous rankings.

However, this time the temple examination was different from the past, and it restored the previous system of the Renzong Dynasty - the temple examination will depose the students who passed the examination.

Of course, this imperial examination in the second year of Shaosheng is more good news, whether it is the academy examination or the general examination, the content of the examination is restored to the content before the Renzong Dynasty. However, the palace examination is in a form of self-examination - policy theory.

The emperor asked the question on the spot, which absolutely avoided the possibility of students cheating, and also curbed the possibility of students betting on the question to a certain extent. Because, the number of students in the world does not know how many, and no one can guarantee that no one will be able to guess the mind of the official family.

After watching these new imperial examination measures of the new dynasty, the students loved and hated.

What I love is that since the students who have been dismissed from the palace examination, that is to say, there will be more students who have been selected for the examination.

What I hate is that those officials of the Ministry of Rites who are in charge of scientific expeditions, they can no longer enjoy the glory of the master. Officials who have been tested in the state government supervision institutes will still be able to get some oil and water.

However, the officials who oversaw the examination were going to suffer this time, and if they wanted to make money in the examination, they had to have a fateful flower. Zhao Xu specially explained to the three supervision agencies, after the test list is released, accept all the students' complaints, and all the students and examiners who find that someone is cheating in the test and bending the law for personal gain, the students will be beheaded for public display, and the examiner will enjoy the same treatment as Liu Zhi and Liang Tao's family.

And, there's something even more scary.

All students who report with their real names are not held accountable for the untruthfulness of the report, but several supervision agencies are not able to clearly detect those reports that are not true, and those who hide their heads and tails, throw a small note or report letter, can be investigated by the imperial history himself, but only in the dark.

Now Lingnan has become a paradise, and it is not so easy to be relegated there. The Song-Xia border is where these prisoners return.

All of a sudden, many examiners who had already been determined to be in charge of the examination found reasons to take sick leave, but they didn't want to supervise the examination. After Zhang Shangying, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, informed the official family of this matter, Zhao Xu replied that he would approve them one by one.

However, after the imperial examination, regardless of whether the other party is really sick or not, if he is over 50 years old, he will be allowed to become a generalist, and those under 50 years old will be removed from his official position and let him return home. No matter how rich the court is, it has no spare money to raise moths and sick.

Of course, if there are officials who have indeed been weak and sick, after being diagnosed and treated by the imperial doctor, the imperial court will still issue the money of their officials as usual. However, before these people retreat, the Jilu officials will be demoted by one rank.

Since January of the second year of Shaosheng, the students who participated in the imperial examination have rushed to Bianliang City one after another.

This time, the local government organization of the imperial examination was quite good, and in the post stations of various prefectures, prefectures and counties, free accommodation and one or two meals were provided to students passing by. Even the officials who run errands have to make room for these students who have entered Beijing to take the exam. Of course, because the number of students is too large, the accommodation conditions cannot be too demanding.

These costs were paid for by the imperial treasury, not by the local government.

For a post station, it doesn't cost much just to provide accommodation and a meal or two for passing students. There are too many students in the world. Moreover, this time, Zhao Xu didn't just drive into Shike.

After the Jinshi examination, there will be an examination system, a children's subject, etc., and Zhao Xu will hold the corresponding examination for other material selection exams held by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty in the past.

Therefore, the number of people who went to Beijing to take various examinations this time has exceeded 200,000.

This expenditure alone was enough to bankrupt the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty last year, but fortunately, the Southern Expeditionary Army broke through Thang Long City, and Zhao Xu got a lot of wealth just by one.

That's why the official family will behave so generously this time.

But this initiative has been greatly praised by poor students all over the world.

Moreover, Zhao Xu also abolished some of the unreasonable aspects of the imperial examination system that Fan Zhongyan had improved. For example, when the state capital and county take the college examination, they need to protect each other, which greatly restricts the opportunity for poor students to participate in the college examination. Speaking of which, Fan Zhongyan himself was also born in poverty, but the measure he formulated harmed many poor students.

This improvement by Zhao Xu further liberated the shackles that had been binding poor students.

Not only that, but I also heard that the location of the exam this time has also been rushed, and the new examination room environment will be more superior, and students can take the exam in it with more peace of mind. I just know that now, the specific location of the test has not been announced.

From the aspect of the imperial examination alone, the party struggle in the Great Song Dynasty actually began in the Renzong Dynasty, not the Shenzong Dynasty, and the original initiator of the party struggle was the famous Fan Zhongyan, who first gathered the so-called Junzi Party to impeach Lu Yijian's dictatorship.

In the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty, the students who passed the imperial examination and the palace examination were no longer dismissed, and they also started from the Renzong Dynasty.

Zhao Xu's new measures have made the number of students participating in this event more and more.

At the beginning of February, the trial in Bianliang City began. This imperial examination event that shocked the entire Great Song Dynasty and affected several dynasties in later generations was opened first.

What everyone didn't expect was that the place where the exam was held was a nursery school.

When the students entered the examination room, they were all shocked.

The first unexpected move.

This time, the students who participated in the examination no longer had to worry about being humiliated by the guards and raiding their whole bodies.

The main gate of the nursery has been changed to narrow passages, and there are a total of 100 passages.

All students who take the examination will be asked to change all their clothes, shoes and socks after entering these passages, and they will be provided with a complete set of brand new clothes in the examination room.

There were two people in charge of supervising them, one was a servant and the other was a eunuch in the palace. When the students changed their clothes, the eunuchs who supervised the process told each candidate that the clothes were provided at the expense of the officials. After the college examination, these clothes belong to the students personally.

Regardless of whether the students can pass the examination or not, the government will not take back the clothes.

Moreover, there are some careful students who defend themselves, and the clothes provided by the official family do not know what material they are woven from, thick but not heavy, but they are warm and extraordinary when worn on the body. You must know that the Great Song Dynasty implemented a lunar calendar, and February is equivalent to March in later generations, and now it is winter, but the inside of the passage is very warm.

Although these students have to strip naked in front of outsiders, their personal clothes will also be sealed together with their own examination tools and food.

But as long as the other party doesn't do it himself, these students feel that they can still bear it.